The document provides guidance for teaching basic early reading skills to children including learning letter sounds, letter formation, blending sounds, identifying sounds in words, and tricky words. It outlines activities for teaching letter sounds such as using action rhymes and sound sheets, and recommends techniques for blending, reading, writing, and developing proper pencil grip. Games, books, and workbooks are also suggested to reinforce learning letter sounds and blending them to read simple words.

1. Welcome to

2. Reading Books to Children

3. 5 Basic Skills
1. Learning the letter sounds
2. Letter formation
3. Blending
4. Identifying sounds in words
5. Tricky words

4. Letter Sounds

5. Digraphs
(two letters making one sound)

6. Storylines and Actions
Learning the /s/ sound
Action:
Weave your hand like a
snake, making an ‘s’
shape, saying ssssss

7. Letter Formation
• Finger Phonics books
• On the board
• In the air

8. Reading (blending)

9. Writing (identifying sounds in words)

10. Pencil Hold
• Tripod grip
• ‘Froggy legs’
movement

11. Sound Sheets
This is
the /s/ Sound
Sheet from
The Phonics
Handbook.

12. Sound Book

13. Letter Sounds
Group 1

14. Blending Words

15. Games

16. Letter Sounds
Group 2
Group 3

17. Digraphs
(two letters that make one sound)

18. /ai/ Words

19. Letter Sounds
Group 4
Group 5

20. Digraph with Two Sounds: ‘oo’
This is the
‘oo’ Sound
Sheet from
The Phonics
Handbook.

21. Letter Sounds
Group 6
Group 7

22. Dictation
• Dictate letter sounds
• CVC words
• Homework Writing
Book

23. Read and See Books

24. Word Boxes

25. Reading Tricky Words

26. Jolly Readers
Tricky words,
Level 1
Level 1
Some words
used in Level 1

27. (fla
me)
Alternative Vowel Sounds
Introduced as: Alternatives taught later:
(rain) (play)
(fee
t)
(lea
f)
(these)
(bo
at)
(snow) (bone)

28. Dictation Sample

29. Independent Writing
The children need to know:
• The 42 letter sounds
• How to hear the sounds in words
• One way of writing the letters for the sounds
• What they want to say

30. Independent Writing